Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread #5

[Disney127]

mvf-m11c

Thanks for sharing your photos. They are beautiful. Still looking forward to see the holiday decorations again even if they are toned down abit. Will really miss the Jingle Jamboree area this year.

 

[JadeDarkstar]

Thank you for sharing all those photos with us.

 

[JenEMT]

Thank you so much! I look forward to hearing from more people who have had the opportunity to hit the parks since the holiday season officially started!

 

[kylie71]

Jingle Cruise is back again for the holiday season.

It's a Small World Holiday

Toontown with the Christmas decorations

Can't forget about those ugly plastic trees

New Orleans Square

There were so many changes this year compare to previous years but I do understand why with the Diamond Celebration going on and the changes to DL in the near future

Thank You, Brett for posting these! Beautiful as always!
BTR looks so sad, when with no decorations! So does the castle!
DCA, looks Great though! I find myself spending more and more time there!

--Lori

 

[Stefndoug]

This was our first time to visit Disneyland while decorations are up. We enjoyed everything even if it was toned down a bit (from what I have seen in pictures). I took many, many pictures but I would have to resize them all to get them on here. We did the Holiday tour and enjoyed our goodies and the parade. On the friday we did two parades and the fireworks...it was a 21 hour day (including our volunteer shift that started at 2:30am). We have never done the Haunted House or the Jungle (Jingle) Cruise, so it was nice to see those two attractions as VIP (included in Holiday tour).

Stefani

 

[mom2rtk]

Oh no Bret! @mvf-m11c -I was afraid the garland would go once I saw how big those PTN floats were. DL was my refuge after the MK lost theirs.

Great photos as always, but I'm bummed they had to come with that report.

I love the colors of the diamond celebration, but based on your photos it does seem like Main Street feels way less festive than in prior years.

 

[WAMUMOF4]

I was so excited to be able to see Disneyland with Christmas decorations but I have to say after years of seeing pictures I was disappointed I did realise it wouldn't be as decorated as normal because of the 60th. I did love ISW and the parade though. I guess it just means I need to make a Christmas trip another year I am heading to WDW in Dec so will be very interested to compare the difference

 

[Mickeyflower]

LOOK WHAT CAME TODAY!!!!!!

 

[JenEMT]

How exciting!!

We should get ours tomorrow!

 

[Kenshin21]

We are so excited. We are going Dec 8-10! DW wants to try out the photo pass offerings this time and was wondering if we should do that prepaid in advance option or upgrade one of our premium AP to the signature AP? Any suggestions would be welcomed. I tried to find the prepaid in advance photo pass but couldn't find it.

 

[Mickeyflower]

We are so excited. We are going Dec 8-10! DW wants to try out the photo pass offerings this time and was wondering if we should do that prepaid in advance option or upgrade one of our premium AP to the signature AP? Any suggestions would be welcomed. I tried to find the prepaid in advance photo pass but couldn't find it.

This will be my first time getting the Photo Pass. I've pre purchased it, it was $69. You can do a search on Disneylands web site, I think ifs Disneyphotopass.com. There is also a thread here somewhere about Photo Pass. I can't WAIT!! DBF and I love to pose for the ride pics!

How exciting!!

We should get ours tomorrow!

I ended up having to call UPS. I missed the first delivery attempt (signature required so they will not drop it) & the web site said it would be delivered today. Well I made sure someone was here all day, and when I got home at 8pm it STILL WASNT HERE! So I called UPS & the truck was still out delivering!! Weirdly, less than 5 minutes after I hung up with UPS customer service manager the driver showed up.

 

[calilou]

Is anyone at the Grand this week? Is it decorated? Is the tree up? How about the special hot cocoa and treats bar they set up in the lobby. Is it up? I'll be so sad if the Grand isn't already in its full Christmas glory when we are there this Sunday.

 

[siskaren]

I ended up having to call UPS. I missed the first delivery attempt (signature required so they will not drop it)

You can sign up for UPS My Choice (it's free) and choose to have packages delivered without a signature. I did this after a Disney Store online purchase got sent back ( I did eventually get it) after three attempts at delivering when I wasn't home.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Is anyone at the Grand this week? Is it decorated? Is the tree up? How about the special hot cocoa and treats bar they set up in the lobby. Is it up? I'll be so sad if the Grand isn't already in its full Christmas glory when we are there this Sunday.

I'm not there this year, but we were there this time last year and they hadn't finished the gingerbread house when we left the Tues before Thanksgiving and they weren't serving anything yet. The tree was up though. I haven't heard any reports of the hotel decorations this year though.


And because life likes to keep me on my toes, my 4 yr old cut 4 of her fingers yesterday, so we spent the night in the ER. Two needed stitches, two just needed bandaids and thankfully no tendon damage. And much to her relief, except for no swimming, she is good to go for all of our Disneyland trip.

 

[siskaren]

I haven't heard any reports of the hotel decorations this year though.

mvf-m11c posted a picture of the gingerbread house in progress yesterday. He said that none of the other decorations were up, although he was there last weekend, so it may have changed since then.

 

[CaptBane]

So 14 days (Two Weeks) to our flight taking off. Prepacking has begun...Christmas Music on the radio..Time off from work on the calendar and in the front office...Final packing on night of second about two hours before bed..lol.

 

[crystal1313]

I have seen photos of the tree being up at the Grand.

We are going Sunday and were only going to do one park, Disneyland. But now reading the crazy amount of parades and two fireworks shows we are debating getting a hopper and escaping the madness over to DCA in the evening. My question is this: Does it snow anywhere in DCA? I know a couple of years ago it snowed at the Mad T Party during the holidays, but not sure if they still do that. Thanks!

 

[LadyBJ]

Disney website now has Dec 31 up. I noticed though that there's no NYE event for DCA. Do you think they'd still be updating this or are there no plans at all?

https://disneyland.disney.go.com/calendars/day/2015-12-31/

 

[flyingdumbo127]

I just tried some Dreyers Peppermint Wonderland (not slow churned) that I bought earlier today at Ralph's. Dreyers is on sale at Ralph's this week $3.49 for one or $2.79 each when you buy 2 and yes you are able to mix and match. To be fair, I have not had Peppermint ice cream in half a dozen years due to my TMJ (jaw joint) condition. I'm not able to crunch on the hard candy pieces. I wanted to be able to taste a little of it this year and figured I could pick out the candy pieces or with hot fudge they would melt anyway. Sherry, I have never ever had the Slow Churned version. I did think of that with how this ice cream tasted to me. The ice cream itself is white, no longer pink. The candy pieces are still pink. I did suck on a candy piece and that does have a peppermint taste to it. The smooth white ice cream tastes more like strange vanilla....frozen toothpaste? It does not taste too minty at all to me.

I did call Dreyers and they are sending me out a full value coupon which was very kind. The customer service lady I spoke with said that the ice cream was once pink. It is now white due to consumer complaints about the pink dye. She said the white vs. pink might be why it tastes different to me but she did not say that for sure. I was disappointed. I do remember even last year Baskin and Robbins did carry pink Peppermint Stick ice cream. I will check this year and give that a try. I just wanted to give all of you a heads up on that. I hope if any of you tastes this flavor this year that it tastes sweeter to you--keep in mind I also have a very sweet tooth and lol the sweeter the better

P.S. Does anyone know if the Peppermint ice cream is pink at Disneyland or is it also white?

 

[tlovesdis]

It's pink!